On Friday, October 6th 6-9pm, Modern Eden Gallery opens its show, Loved to Death. The show is co-curated by Audra Kunkle, owner of San Francisco’s infamous Loved to Death curiosity shop that was featured on the Science Channel’s television show, Oddities. Loved To Death started out as an art endeavor making Victorian-themed anthropomorphic taxidermy dioramas and jewelry and now specializes in odd antiquities and Victoriana. You can expect dark-themed artworks inspired by oddities, antiques, taxidermy, memento mori, natural history, crystals, and skulls.

On Saturday the 7th, Oakland’s Faultline Artspace opens Tekeli-Li, an art show inspired by the macabre/horror masters, Edgar Allan Poe and H.P. Lovecraft. “Tekeli-Li” is a mysterious cry used in stories by both Poe and Lovecraft. Its meaning has never been revealed. My piece pays tribute to both authors, using Poe’s raven with a nod to the fictional town of Arkham, Massachusetts. A prominent location in many Lovcraft stories.
“The Raven of Arkham” 11×14″acrylic on canvas.